Presidential Pardons
The historic clemency power of the U.S. President, set forth in Article II of the Constitution and interpreted by the Supreme Court to have few restrictions, has long been the subject of …
Read More >The historic clemency power of the U.S. President, set forth in Article II of the Constitution and interpreted by the Supreme Court to have few restrictions, has long been the subject of …
Read More >This guest post is published during the Academy of Criminal Justice Science conference in Baltimore, occurring March 26-30, 2019, and in relation to this year’s ACJS theme of Justice, Human Rights, and Activism. …
Read More >This guest post is published during the Western Society of Criminology conference, occurring in Honolulu from February 7-9. #WSC2019 By Elizabeth Brown, coauthor of Race and Crime: Geographies of Injustice with George Barganier Recently, …
Read More >Two years after more than 4 million women around the world took to the streets in protest of Donald Trump’s inauguration, demonstrators are once again coming together for the third-annual Women’s March. But what do …
Read More >By Ieva Jusionyte, author of Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border As news about migrant caravans traveling from Central America caught Washington’s attention last month, the government deployed over five thousand troops …
Read More >UC Press is proud to be part of the Association of University Press’s seventh annual University Press Week, whose overall theme this year is #TurnItUP: The university press community amplifies voices, disciplines, and …
Read More >By Michael Koncewicz , author of They Said No to Nixon: Republicans Who Stood Up to the President’s Abuses of Power “And to this day, I think the President had no choice. …
Read More >This week, the President asserted that he has the “absolute right” to pardon himself, tweeting: As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but …
Read More >by Stephen Nash, author of Grand Canyon for Sale: Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change The Trump administration has announced that it is considering big increases in entrance …
Read More >Excerpt from Race and America’s Long War by Nikhil Pal Singh In his excellent introduction to Race and America’s Long War, Nikhil Pal Singh asks: who is an object of dread and elimination, …
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